Canada will offer honorary citizenship to Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.
Ms. Malala will become just the sixth person to be granted honorary
Canadian citizenship after South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson
Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Tibetan spiritual
leader Dalai Lama, British business magnate Aga Khan and Swedish
diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, state-run Radio Pakistan reported on
Thursday.
The 16-year-old activist was shot by the Taliban last
year in Swat Valley of Pakistan for speaking out in favour of girls’
rights to education and was also in the running for this year’s Nobel
Peace Prize. Ms. Malala was the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize
nominee.
Last week, she won the European Union’s prestigious
Sakharov human rights prize and was welcomed at the White House by US
President Barack Obama.
The Pakistani Taliban, however, has said that Ms.
Malala had done “nothing” to deserve a prestigious EU rights award and
vowed to try again to kill her.
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